tolerance
容忍,容忍度,容忍力,容限
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Definitions
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- : a fair, objective, and permissive attitude toward those whose opinions, beliefs, practices, racial or ethnic origins, etc., differ from one's own; freedom from bigotry.
- : a fair, objective, and permissive attitude toward opinions, beliefs, and practices that differ from one's own.
- : interest in and concern for ideas, opinions, practices, etc., foreign to one's own; a liberal, undogmatic viewpoint.
- : the act or capacity of enduring; endurance: My tolerance of noise is limited.
- : Medicine/Medical, Immunology. the power of enduring or resisting the action of a drug, poison, etc.: a tolerance to antibiotics.the lack of or low levels of immune response to transplanted tissue or other foreign substance that is normally immunogenic.
- : Machinery. the permissible range of variation in a dimension of an object.Compare allowance. the permissible variation of an object or objects in some characteristic such as hardness, weight, or quantity.
- : Also called allowance. Coining. a permissible deviation in the fineness and weight of coin, owing to the difficulty of securing exact conformity to the standard prescribed by law.
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Examples
Dark Triad people have no tolerance for anything, or acceptance.
Desmond said the growing number of positive cases was a good thing because healthy people would build up a tolerance to the virus and protect the vulnerable.
That comity and tolerance seems to be vanishing, with that generation of Americans replaced with a generation driven by the anger of extremists.
With funding from the USDA’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture, the researchers now plan to identify specific genetic markers that correlate with tolerance to tropical conditions.
Those genes may be behind the reptiles’ tolerance of cool temperatures, the researchers say.
And yes, our values include tolerance of those who wish to make fun of religion.
And what do we really mean when we say “religious tolerance”?
World peace, religious tolerance, and an end to global poverty, hunger, and disease.
But religious tolerance would be a wholesome goodie for every boy and girl.
I asked for world peace, religious tolerance and an end to poverty.
Ample tolerance of all religions and sects, but abolition and expulsion of all monastic Orders.
In the same session, James Madison actively participated in a discussion concerning religious liberty and tolerance.
Though it fell far short of what would now be understood by tolerance, it was fully up to the level of the times.
Two wide-reaching limitations of the principle of tolerance intervened to close the gate against other Nonconformists than these.
The Brodricks seemed to tolerate their brother-in-law; and he seemed, more sublimely, to tolerate their tolerance.